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2025 AIM Award Recipients Rise to the Top

January 16, 2025

Now in its 8th year, UC San Diego’s Accelerating Innovation to Market (AIM) program kicks off what promises to be yet another successful year with the announcement of its latest roster of awarded projects for 2025. This dynamic initiative, led by the Office of Innovation and Commercialization, focuses on expediting groundbreaking university technologies into market-ready solutions through resources and funding. Unique to this year, however, the total award pool leaped to an impressive $400,000, over 60% larger than in previous years, which then allowed the program to double the number of startups it could fund. The record increase was due in large part to the support of the University of California Office of the President, which graciously matched funding with the Entrepreneurship Council.

The Basement Celebrates Student Entrepreneurship with Demo Day-Pitch Competition 2024

June 11, 2024

Discover the recent student innovations and awards presented at this year’s Demo Day and Pitch Competition, hosted by The Basement under the Office of Innovation and Commercialization at the Design and Innovation Building on May 23, 2024.

Education, Collaboration Help Launch Startups at UC San Diego

May 1, 2024

The Design and Innovation Building is a modern 74,000-square-foot space that integrates rigorous education and industry collaboration across its four distinct floors, each uniquely designed and positioned to propel thinkers, dreamers and doers upward as they progress through each level.

2023 EIR Cohort Navigates the Way to Success For Founders

March 13, 2023

Designed to guide our startup community through those challenges, the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIR) program continues to blossom with each new cohort. Now in its seventh year, the Office of Innovation & Commercialization (OIC) is excited to announce its newest cohort with the introduction of Dr.
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